A Spark of Light Reviewed By Ekta R. Garg of Bookpleasures.com

Ekta R. Garg

Reviewer Ekta Garg: Ekta
has actively written and edited since 2005 for publications like: The
Portland Physician Scribe; the Portland Home Builders
Association home show magazines; ABCDlady; and The
Bollywood Ticket. With an MSJ in magazine publishing from
Northwestern University Ekta also maintains The
Write Edge-a professional blog for her writing. In addition
to her writing and editing, Ekta maintains her position as a
“domestic engineer”—housewife—and enjoys being a mother to
two beautiful kids.

A gunman bursts into a
women’s health center and takes hostages to make a statement about
abortion. The hostage negotiator who arrives on scene learns that his
daughter is inside the center and fights to keep his composure as he
works with the gunman to let everyone go. The gunman, the negotiator,
his daughter, and the other people in the center live through the
most tense day of their lives as the hours unfold. Author Jodi
Picoult brings her strengths as researcher and compassionate listener
to a sensitive and timely issue in a book that, unfortunately,
doesn’t live up to her previous novels in A Spark of Light.

In Jackson, Mississippi,
there’s only one place where women can go to get legal abortions.
The Center offers other female health services, of course, but none
brings on the protesters like the termination of pregnancies does. So
when Hugh McElroy gets the call to a hostage situation at the Center,
he’s prepared to go in and talk the shooter off his mental ledge.

Hugh knows that a hostage
situation means almost anything can happen; he’s negotiated with
enough angry people to expect it. Even he’s not prepared for
discovering that his only child and older sister are inside the
Center. His 15-year-old daughter, Wren, is the greatest joy of his
life, and his sister, XXX, taught him everything he needed to know to
grow up.

About the Author Taken From Amazom.com: Jodi Picoult is the #1 New
York Times bestselling author of twenty-five novels, including Small
Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, and My Sister's Keeper.